"Master Lei, you've already helped me a lot when it comes to building the Broken Star Club and coming up with cultivation plans."
"But it's not enough. It's far from enough. Compared to the potential you have, I should be helping you more," Lei Zongchao said sincerely.
Lei Zongchao said. "I've been hesitating whether I should invite you here or not. After all these years, I've been alone here, and it's been too lonely. That's why as long as the youngsters show a little bit of brilliance, I'll be very willing to invite them here and give them all the help that I can to guide them forward on the path of spirit energy martial arts.
"The people whose potential and performance are far from yours have all received my guidance and support. Sometimes, I don't even need real guidance. As long as I give them a bit of affirmation and encouragement, it's enough for them to continue down the path of exploring the limits of life.
"But you're different.
"I can generally tell where the limits of those children are and create the most detailed cultivation plans for them so that they can reach the peak safely, steadily, and quickly.
"But I can't see exactly where your limits are, and I don't know how to guide you so that you can erupt with your strongest potential. I'm even worried that if I interfere recklessly, I'll be spoiling your talent instead of helping it grow, and I'll be overreaching myself.
"This is something that has never happened in my long life of cultivation.
"That's why I've never contacted you directly. I only provided you with the necessary help through the abnormal beast research department.
"Originally, I was looking forward to seeing just how powerful you could grow without my interference.
"But in the end, I changed my mind and sent you an invitation. In fact, I even went as far as to increase the probability of my death to force the profound secret of Divine Nine Dragon Seals into your body, because I don't have much time left. Every morning, when I wake up slowly from the gene concentrate, I feel like I'm a resurrected corpse. I know very well that no matter how I take good care of myself and treat myself, it's impossible for me to see you reach the peak and surpass your limits.
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"We might have won against the monster civilization, but we haven't completely destroyed this old enemy that has been fighting against us for decades. And there might be enemies that are one hundred times more difficult to deal with than monsters beyond Monster Mountain Range.
"As long as I'm alive, I won't let any enemy invade even an inch of Dragon City's land or touch a single hair on Dragon Citizens. But I will eventually die, so I can only come up with this plan. I'll use this simple and crude method to pass down the secrets of my martial arts as much as I can and spread them.
"That's why I said you don't have to thank me.
"Because I'm not certain whether I'm helping you or harming you. Will the Divine Nine Dragon Seals and more secrets of martial arts I poured into your body help you reach a breakthrough faster, or will it bind and twist your future? In fact, I don't know whether I will transfer the curse from the ancient era into your body so that you will become the bearer of a tragic fate.
"If that's really the case, forgive me, Meng Chao. My time is up, and I have no other choice."
Lei Zongchao's expression was both resolute and desolate.
But Meng Chao smiled.
He revealed his sharp, snow-white teeth.
"Thank you, Master Lei. I'm willing to bear any fate or curse and crush them completely!"
He swung his fists and said firmly, "After all, when fate truly descends upon us, no matter how we run from it, it's useless. We can't choose our fate, but we can choose whether we should bend our knees and wait for death in the face of fate or fight to the end!"
Lei Zongchao stared at Meng Chao for a long time before he finally smiled in relief.
"Looks like Jin Wanhao didn't choose the wrong person, and I didn't choose the wrong person either," he mumbled.
"Master Lei …"
Meng Chao looked at the gradually fading X-shaped eye tattoo on Lei Zongchao's shoulder and seized the chance to ask, "Just what are the ancient ruins like? Will I have the chance to obtain power equivalent to Deity Realm if I enter it? Why are quite a number of elites I met in the superhuman circle willing to fight against monsters in the wild instead of exploring the ancient ruins? Can I be like you and enter the ancient ruins to cultivate? "
He asked around eight questions in one go.
All of them lingered in his heart for a long time.
There were four research centers in Dragon City.
They were the zombie research center, the monster research center, the Other World research center, and the ruins research center.
The first three research centers were relatively transparent and open. The researchers often went to middle and high schools to give lectures. The monster research center was also one of the two major practical testing grounds for the national college examination.
The research results of the three research centers were also relatively mature in commercialization. They often released strange trinkets that normal people could buy.
Only the ruins research center was shrouded in a mysterious veil. Not only did they rarely reveal their research progress and results to the public, outsiders rarely received invitations to visit them.
Take the controllable transmigration project in the ruins research center as an example. To get an astronomical amount of research funds, they had to deal with the outside world and get sponsors, but they only organized activities within Blue Home.
After Meng Chao obtained the status of a director in Blue Home, he wanted to enter the ancient ruins to understand the progress of the controllable transmigration project.
During the Noble Descent Hotel ambush, he saved quite a number of transmigration experts' lives, and the experts were happy to invite him.
But the ruins research center still wanted him to submit around fifty documents and go through a complicated and cumbersome examination. He also had to go through the most detailed body and brain tests.
At that time, Meng Chao was busy training in the wild.
Then, he was caught in the battle in the lair and the pitched battle at the borders of Dragon City.
There was no time for him to deal with the examination from the ruins research center.
Hence, he was put on hold.
At that moment, Meng Chao witnessed the mysteriousness and strength of the ancient ruins from Lei Zongchao. There was no way he could hold back his curiosity.
"The ancient ruins research center does indeed contain power that Earthlings can't imagine, but this power isn't something we can touch. Instead, it might bring us disaster. It's definitely a treasure that has poison smeared over it," Lei Zongchao said to Meng Chao sternly.
Lei Zongchao spoke to Meng Chao very sternly. "The mysterious nature of the ruins research center isn't a conspiracy, and it's not like the rumors on the streets saying that some powerful fighters have monopolized the right to explore the ancient ruins and have obtained invincible divine power from the ancient ruins, so they are not allowed to imitate them.
"No, there's no such thing. In truth, the ancient ruins can be opened to all Dragon Citizens. It doesn't matter who wants to go in, as long as they can prove that they have the strength to be responsible for themselves and others."
"Is that so?"
This answer was against Meng Chao's expectations. He was stunned for a moment before he asked, "Then why aren't many of the powerful fighters at the peak of their strength exploring the ancient ruins?"
"Because there's a lot of uncertainty when it comes to exploring the ancient ruins."
Lei Zongchao smiled wanly and explained, "You can think of the ancient ruins as a bottomless crack buried deep under the Supernatural Tower that leads straight to the core of the planet. Of course, there are also branches around the main crack that intersects with each other like a spider's web." It's like an ancient tree that grows to the core of the planet with its head down and legs up.
"No one knows just how deep the main crack is. Our explorations are mainly carried out in the branch cracks that grow out of the ground.
"These 'branches' are independent to a certain extent. They have their own laws of physics, laws of space, traps, and even primordial viruses. Of course, they might also contain fossils, runes, treasures, relics, and secret techniques of the primordial civilization.
"The problem is, how do you clear the traps, how do you defend against viruses, how do you break the runic symbols, and how do you obtain the ancient treasure's acknowledgment? There's no pattern to these things. Just like what I said just now, it's just a matter of probability. It doesn't mean that the higher your cultivation realm, the stronger your fighting strength, and the more experience you have in exploring the ancient ruins, the more you'll definitely be able to survive and return with great rewards.
"This means that it doesn't matter whether you're a normal soldier who hasn't awakened to supernatural abilities or a Deity Realm superhuman, you're just trying your luck when you enter the ancient ruins. The danger of the latter is even greater.
"How should I put this? The ancient ruins aren't like a cold, dead object. Instead, they seem to be alive through some unbelievable method, and they're quietly observing the explorers' actions.
"If the explorers are weak, they might not be interested and won't even bother to move, but if they're Deity Realm superhumans with brilliant vitality magnetic fields and burning soul flames, they will swiftly increase the difficulty and danger of the exploration. They'll set up all sorts of obstacles for the explorers, just like …"
"Test?"
Meng Chao remembered A 'Ji's words and added, "Just like some sort of test?"
"That's right. The ancient ruins are like a test whose difficulty will be adjusted randomly based on the strength of the test takers. It's a very 'fair' test. Also, the difficulty and danger will continue increasing as you go deeper," Lei Zongchao continued.
Lei Zongchao continued. "When Blood Alliance first discovered the ancient ruins, we mainly explored the area around fifty meters underground. The cracks over there were rather stable and safe. Even if we ran into danger, we could observe and understand it with Earthlings' technology in the middle of the twenty-first century. At that depth, the survival rate of explorers was not low.
"But Blood Alliance wasn't satisfied. They forced us to go down the bottomless main crack from fifty meters underground to three hundred meters underground.
"At that depth, there wasn't enough oxygen, and the space was cramped. The temperature was incredibly high, and it was filled with all sorts of interference and radiation. There were also terrifying ancient viruses that could turn humans into unrecognizable monsters at any moment.
"Many of the explorers were caught off guard, and they died tragically at that depth.
"Of course, the explorers who survived obtained even more benefits from that depth compared to the deeper underground.
"And when they went deeper than five hundred meters underground, the explorers found themselves in another world.
The connection between the explorers and the surface was completely cut off. Even the laws of physics were completely distorted.
"The labyrinth of 'killing oneself' that I mentioned just now is right here."
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